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In fact, Occam’s Razor would suggest that any action taken by this administration should be assumed to be politically motivated, barring evidence to the contrar
by mwfunk 7y ago
In fact, Occam’s Razor would suggest that any action taken by this administration should be assumed to be politically motivated, barring evidence to the contrary. Especially since the current administration has always been very vocally hostile to any sort of regulatory or antitrust action.
- creaghpatr 7y agoThe house judiciary committee is democrat-controlled, so at the very least it's a bipartisan investigation(s). Both parties have spoken out on antitrust (if only for separate, self-interested purposes). https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/03/tech/tech-antitrust-house-probe/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/03/tech/tech-antitrust-house-pro... >The Democratic-led investigation comes as the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are taking their first steps toward a potential probe of their own into Google, according to three people familiar with the matter. Regulators have negotiated to divide oversight of the tech industry between the two agencies in recent weeks, these people said. The two agencies have also reportedly split up oversight of Amazon, Apple and Facebook.
- cabaalis 7y agoI try very hard to give some grace to the "Trump bad in everything" that I hear so much. However, his moronic tweets aside, I see nothing more than normal politicking, and right-of-center governance. The biggest flaw I see is the inability to admit and correct policy problems, which is absolutely not unique to President Trump.
- Nasrudith 7y agoPrivatized child cages for the explicit reason of brutalizing those applying for asylum are normal right of center governance? Calling an investigation which found numerous cases of foreign involvement a coup? I think you might be suffering from severe change blindness.
- inflatableDodo 7y agoNonsense, everything is normal. Look; >"I believe that if people stoped[sic] using or subscribing to @ATT, they would be forced to make big changes at @CNN, which is dying in the ratings anyway. It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News! Why wouldn’t they act. When the World watches @CNN, it gets a false picture of USA. Sad!" — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2019 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1135499002626154496 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/11354990026261544...
- cabaalis 7y agoTrump just does it on Twitter. https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/obama-says-fox-news-promotes-destructive-viewpoint/ https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/obama-says... https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12fox.html?pagewanted=all https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/business/media/12fox.html... https://www.thenation.com/article/bushs-war-press/ https://www.thenation.com/article/bushs-war-press/
- inflatableDodo 7y agoI know, that is why I said that everything is normal. I am in complete agreement that all of those examples make Donald Trump appear quite normal. This is because Donald Trump is an ordinary president in a very normal way.
- inscionent 7y agoKeep those blinders up
- chx 7y agoReally? The trade war with China and the upsetting of decades old alliances with other NATO countries and South Korea is normal...?